Description
A racing game for the BBC Micro, released by Nova Computing in 1986 and never reissued.
Provenance
Found in a school storeroom when the building was cleared. The label reads ‘Photos’. Rebuilt from 3 damaged copies, none of them complete on its own.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
5b68412b6f40cb697530baad8473285ac25f50791246d4e61b329ffd4141e7fe- Last verified
- Sep 11, 2026, by Vigil
- Emulation profile
- LZE-BBC-5 · lz-6502 core
- Copies
- Three, on two kinds of storage, in two cities
- Original carriers
- Kept in cold storage in Vancouver
Access
Free, in the Lazarus reading room in Vancouver and in partner reading rooms. The license does not permit copies to be taken away.
In the reading room it runs in emulation under profile LZE-BBC-5, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on the BBC Micro.
Cite as: Nova Computing, Quiet Archipelago (1986). Lazarus Archive, LZ-31323.